Coffee Shop Assignment

Suzzette Medina
MCom 100W- Tu/Th 10:30 a.m.
Coffee Shop Assignment
Word Count: 237
It is about twelve o’clock at the café strategically placed within the Martin Luther King Jr. Library. The swarms of students, faculty, and employees begin to fill the line at the cashier, ready to devour their lunches before the next class. The straight, compacted line grew so long it mirrored the massive crowd one would find at “$0.50 wing night” at the local Cluck University.
The fire marshal’s maximum capacity sign may have met its match today as the massive number of backpacking students blocked all clear passage ways in and out of the café.
A fire hazard for sure.
The sounds that overwhelm the thoughts were filled with shallow meaningless chatter, coins bouncing off counters and registers, the foaming and steaming of the espresso machine, the rustling of bags of chips, and the almost non-existent background music the speaker system played.
This droning racket continued on in a steady stream, occasionally being broken up by the extra loud customer, or the banging of a few big boxes being unloaded in the back.
The tables on one side of the café were adorned with very luxurious and voluminous floral arrangements displaying the blue and gold school colors. The small plastic vase looked a bit pitiful wobbling on one edge of the square tan tables. This paper-weight of vase was greatly in need of a cleaning.